The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-03-05

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is passed in 1867, only to annoy and hinder
an honest President, whom they regarded
is as obstreperOus because he was honest,
4 should be blotted from the statute-b book.
in My friend General Black tells me that the
of bill has been passed by the House within
r few days. The federal election law.
" providing for federal supervisors and mar
shals to supervise and control our elections
e In sovereign States, which is a relic of ar
o bltrary and unnecessary war legislation.
:. should also be repealed 1t makes no DIFF
e ference that this patronage is now in our
t hands; the law should not be permitted to
: remain. Its enforcement is useless waste
of the peoples money, and question of
: principle is involved which should always
be regarded as more important than mere
t party patronage. The enormous and un-
necessary revenues of the country, taken
from the people by indirect taxation, should
be reduced. There may be differences of
opinion as to details, and our party is broad
and generous enough to tolerate them, but
upon the main question there ought not to
be any dispute.
If my voice could reach our friends
everywhere, l would urge in reference to.
these questions the adoption of that policy
which teache, sin essentials unity; in nom
essentials, liberty, and in all things, charity
MIR. Foster, President of the Republican
Club, said at the Lincoln dinner This
club is to promote the principles of the
Republican party. These include taxation,
which is protection alike to the wage-earner
and the wage-payer.' This admission has
at least the merit of frankness. 1t has
heretofore been difficult to discover how
taxation of itself could protect anybody.
If taxation is protection, then it must follow
that the greater the taxation the greater
the protection This doctrine may be pop
uiar with those who used to contend that's
public debt was public blessing, and
hence the greater the debt the greater the
blessing, but it was believed that this the
ory had long since been exploded. Pro-
tecting wage-earner by taxing him is like
farmer going to mill upon horseback put
ting his bag of grain upon his shoulders in
order to relieve the horse.
Taxation is a burden, and it cannot be
made lighter or more acceptable by calling
it something else. This argument in favor
of protection which does not in fact pro-
tect is on a par with the demand of few
proprietors of henneries, described in the
Evening Post, who have insisted upon a
tax or an import duty upon eggs in order
to protect our American hens from the in
fernal activity of the pauper hens .of~
Europe
1t is especially desirable that as a
we pursue, as against common en-
bold and aggressive policy and
action. 1 dislike hypocrisy in poll
would not do indirectly what
do directly. l would remove
from Office in proper cases, no
and or trumped-up chal
party and t6F4. .WAHse they
in important places Is
public interests, which pIcis
Let us recpQ the clOs-
fa,, 9 - sk~s-platfnrx OF
stantiaIly dictated BY, MT: Tildeg
we demand a. - e
Of administrat
we may have TSS
men, That same
ly declares that 'all
peoples servants
private perquisite th1s pfdst.
The peoples servants should present the
sentiments of the people; the faithful full
fllment of their official trust demands their
adherence and devotion to the principles
approved in their election or involved in
their appointment. This is not only COM
mon sense, but it is honorable politics but
politics in its best sense lis the science of
government
President Cleveland may rest assured
that, although hampered by an adverse
Senate and criticised by a rancorous oppo-
sition press and impeded by the solicitude
of some professed but fair-weather friends,
who seem to be unnatural allies, he will
have the support and confidence of his
party in every courageous effort which he
may make to purify the public service and
to advance the cause of good government
by the promotion of Democratic principles,
| believe it was Roscoe Conkling who
once said There are times when plain
words are the best. This is a good time
to address our Republican friends in the
language of truth, and to inform them that
the Democratic party has been defrauded,
fooled and hoodwinked long enough, and
that it proposes to insist upon its political
rights. A new era has arrived. This is
not 1864, and it is not feasible to elect Re-
publicans by military rule or arbitrary
methods. This is not 1876, and it is no
longer practicable to feloniously appropriate
the electoral vote of sovereign states. A
new era has arrived. The day Of conve-
nient Democratic laundering has also passed,
The Republican method of insisting that
all within Republican control shall be Re-
publicans to the core, and that all without
Republican control shall be non-partisan,
is no longer likely to succeed. Times and
men have changed. The day Of political
and substantial justice has come. The day
Of resolute, intelligent, Democratic man
hood has come. -
The young men of The country are raj
lying to our standard, and in the bright
lexicon of youth there is no such word as
fall Vigorous applause We present
to the people the living issues Of the day,
and not the questions of the dead past.
We expect to succeed because we deserve
to succeed; because we are giving the people
better government than that which chardc-
terized Republican rule; because our prin-
elpleS are IN tne interest," OF the 8IeaC Dody
Of our population; because we protect the
rights of all; because, while we believe in
strong government, we do not believe in
paternal government because we believe
that labor should receive its fair share of
reward, and that by just and equal laws
every man should have an opportunity to
sustain himself; because we would maintain
proper relations in the exercise Of power,
and believe in the doctrine that while the
people should support the government, the
government should not support the people,
! With these watchwords on our banner,
Democracy, which never dies and never
surrenders, courageously, boldly and conf
IDENTIFY marches forward to the victory which
surely awaits us in 1885,"